Emperor Elite Liveaboard, Red Sea
Well-established liveaboard offering expert, action-packed itineraries in the Egyptian Red Sea
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Overview
- Over 25 years’ experience offering liveaboard cruises in the Red Sea
- Get the most out of your trip with the 21+ DIVES or MAX dive itineraries
- Enjoy free wifi, wine with dinner, and nitrox mixes up to 40%
Operated by the long-reigning kings of Red Sea liveaboard diving - Emperor Divers - this vessel offers convenient, action-packed voyages exploring the very best dive sites in the Egyptian Red Sea. Boasting contemporary and spacious cabins, and a handful of extra perks like free nitrox and complimentary wine, Emperor Elite is well-equipped to cater for the most discerning of divers. Throw in the action-packed itineraries and you’ve got a dream dive holiday and exceptional value for money.
- Number of cabins:13
- Internet:YES
- Nitrox:YES
- Equipment rental:YES
- Guest / Guide:12:1
- Group booking discounts
14 paying guests, plus 2 free of charge
23 paying guests, plus 3 free of charge
Choose your trip
- 7Nov 20248D / 7N
South and St Johns
21+ divesfrom $1,664Overview
8 days / 7 nights21+Advanced Open Water - Minimum 30 divesDive and travel insurance requiredTransfer details
Departure
07 Nov 2024
06:00 PM
Port Ghalib
Marsa Alam International Airport: RMF
Return
14 Nov 2024
09:00 AM
Port Ghalib
Marsa Alam International Airport: RMF
What's included
- Meals and snacks
- Water, tea and coffee
- Soft drinks
- Beer and wine with dinner
- Internet
- Fuel surcharge
- Tanks and weights
- Night dives
- Nitrox
- Towels and toiletries
- Taxes
- Park and port fees
- Transfers
What's not included
- Dive and travel insurance
To be paid in advance or onboardOptional Extras
- Single supplement - 50%
- Alcoholic drinks
- Gratuities - €75 per person
- Equipment rental - €206 per trip
To be booked in advance or paid onboardHighlights
- Circular itinerary incorporating the best sites of the south
- Dive up to 21 times in 7 days
- Visit the rarely dived southern sites of St Johns
- Explore the tunnels and small caves of Gota Kebir
- Meet the resident dolphins of Fury Shoals’ pristine reef
- Search for the oceanic whitetips of Elphinstone
- The longer crossings of this itinerary will mostly be at night
Day 1: Once onboard there will be a safety briefing, crew introduction, complete and check dive paperwork, cabin allocation and boat orientation. Our boats moor in the port on arrival day, departing early the next morning. The first dive is a check dive near the port.Days 2-6: Sailing to the southernmost reefs, you’ll depart from Port Ghalib and dive some sites to the south before sailing overnight to your southernmost point in the St. John’s area. Depending on weather, government approval and marine life sightings in recent weeks, we may sail to the southernmost islands of Rocky and Zabargad, or we’ll moor instead in the vast reef system of St John’s to begin the adventure in the South.When leaving Port Ghalib the route can sometimes take in a dive at Abu Dabab on the first or last day. Often spoilt for choice, your guides will pick sites that they know to be the best for the time of year and can find excellent alternatives should the weather affect the normal route.On the way to Fury Shoals, we’ll dive Sha’ab Sharm with its wall dives and whitetip reef sharks. At Fury Shoals, dive Sha’ab Claude with its famous swim-throughs and huge porite corals. Whitetip reef sharks and an anemone and clownfish settlement can be seen a little off the reef to the south. Abu Galawa Soraya has a fantastic coral garden and a wreck of a private sailing boat populated with glassfish.St Johns is a vast collection of small reefs offering some of the most remote and rewarding diving in the Red Sea. This incredibly beautiful reef lies a short distance north of the Sudanese border. The reef covers a huge area and many dives would be needed to explore the numerous coral heads and islands. Habili Ali offers giant gorgonians and black corals whilst grey reef, silvertip and schools of hammerhead sharks might be found on the west side. Habili Gafaar is a mass of soft corals teaming with shoals of snappers, butterfly fish and barracudas. Mantas, grey reef and silvertip sharks can often be seen in the blue.Gota Kebir is a massive reef, famous for its tunnels and south plateau, where jacks and barracudas can be seen and the occasional manta. The tunnels are ideal for novice cave divers.Gota Soraya is rated as possibly one of the best wall dives in the Red Sea, with overhangs and cracks in the reef wall full of glass fish and sweepers and an abundance of corals, Grey Reef, Silvertips and Hammerhead sharks.Day 7: On the last day as we head back to port, we will try to take in a dive or two on the world famous Elphinstone Reef if weather and diver experience permits us, or we will finish in the Abu Dabab area perhaps with another dive or two closer to Port Ghalib. We return to port at approximately 13.00 and moor here overnight. In the evening, we will pack up diving equipment, visit the marina and settle any outstanding bills.Day 8: Depart for the airport or hotel.Sample itineraries are for guidance only. Actual itineraries may differ slightly due to factors such as weather, wildlife, logistics and local regulations.Payment & cancellation terms
- More than 60 days prior to service start date, the cancellation fee charged is equal to the amount of deposit(s) already paid.
- 60 days or less prior to service start date a cancellation fee of 100% is charged.
Payment policy20% deposit - required to secure reservation.
80% balance - due 60 days prior to departure.
Bookings received less than 60 days before departure require payment in full to secure reservation.Cancellation policySpecial offers or promotions - separate payment and cancellation terms may apply.
Group bookings - separate payment and cancellation terms may apply.
Contact the ZuBlu travel team if you have any questions about payment terms and cancellation2 spaces left - 14Nov 20248D / 7N
South and St Johns
21+ divesfrom $1,664Overview
8 days / 7 nights21+Advanced Open Water - Minimum 30 divesDive and travel insurance requiredTransfer details
Departure
14 Nov 2024
06:00 PM
Port Ghalib
Marsa Alam International Airport: RMF
Return
21 Nov 2024
09:00 AM
Port Ghalib
Marsa Alam International Airport: RMF
What's included
- Meals and snacks
- Water, tea and coffee
- Soft drinks
- Beer and wine with dinner
- Internet
- Fuel surcharge
- Tanks and weights
- Night dives
- Nitrox
- Towels and toiletries
- Taxes
- Park and port fees
- Transfers
What's not included
- Dive and travel insurance
To be paid in advance or onboardOptional Extras
- Single supplement - 50%
- Alcoholic drinks
- Gratuities - €75 per person
- Equipment rental - €206 per trip
To be booked in advance or paid onboardHighlights
- Circular itinerary incorporating the best sites of the south
- Dive up to 21 times in 7 days
- Visit the rarely dived southern sites of St Johns
- Explore the tunnels and small caves of Gota Kebir
- Meet the resident dolphins of Fury Shoals’ pristine reef
- Search for the oceanic whitetips of Elphinstone
- The longer crossings of this itinerary will mostly be at night
Day 1: Once onboard there will be a safety briefing, crew introduction, complete and check dive paperwork, cabin allocation and boat orientation. Our boats moor in the port on arrival day, departing early the next morning. The first dive is a check dive near the port.Days 2-6: Sailing to the southernmost reefs, you’ll depart from Port Ghalib and dive some sites to the south before sailing overnight to your southernmost point in the St. John’s area. Depending on weather, government approval and marine life sightings in recent weeks, we may sail to the southernmost islands of Rocky and Zabargad, or we’ll moor instead in the vast reef system of St John’s to begin the adventure in the South.When leaving Port Ghalib the route can sometimes take in a dive at Abu Dabab on the first or last day. Often spoilt for choice, your guides will pick sites that they know to be the best for the time of year and can find excellent alternatives should the weather affect the normal route.On the way to Fury Shoals, we’ll dive Sha’ab Sharm with its wall dives and whitetip reef sharks. At Fury Shoals, dive Sha’ab Claude with its famous swim-throughs and huge porite corals. Whitetip reef sharks and an anemone and clownfish settlement can be seen a little off the reef to the south. Abu Galawa Soraya has a fantastic coral garden and a wreck of a private sailing boat populated with glassfish.St Johns is a vast collection of small reefs offering some of the most remote and rewarding diving in the Red Sea. This incredibly beautiful reef lies a short distance north of the Sudanese border. The reef covers a huge area and many dives would be needed to explore the numerous coral heads and islands. Habili Ali offers giant gorgonians and black corals whilst grey reef, silvertip and schools of hammerhead sharks might be found on the west side. Habili Gafaar is a mass of soft corals teaming with shoals of snappers, butterfly fish and barracudas. Mantas, grey reef and silvertip sharks can often be seen in the blue.Gota Kebir is a massive reef, famous for its tunnels and south plateau, where jacks and barracudas can be seen and the occasional manta. The tunnels are ideal for novice cave divers.Gota Soraya is rated as possibly one of the best wall dives in the Red Sea, with overhangs and cracks in the reef wall full of glass fish and sweepers and an abundance of corals, Grey Reef, Silvertips and Hammerhead sharks.Day 7: On the last day as we head back to port, we will try to take in a dive or two on the world famous Elphinstone Reef if weather and diver experience permits us, or we will finish in the Abu Dabab area perhaps with another dive or two closer to Port Ghalib. We return to port at approximately 13.00 and moor here overnight. In the evening, we will pack up diving equipment, visit the marina and settle any outstanding bills.Day 8: Depart for the airport or hotel.Sample itineraries are for guidance only. Actual itineraries may differ slightly due to factors such as weather, wildlife, logistics and local regulations.Payment & cancellation terms
- More than 60 days prior to service start date, the cancellation fee charged is equal to the amount of deposit(s) already paid.
- 60 days or less prior to service start date a cancellation fee of 100% is charged.
Payment policy20% deposit - required to secure reservation.
80% balance - due 60 days prior to departure.
Bookings received less than 60 days before departure require payment in full to secure reservation.Cancellation policySpecial offers or promotions - separate payment and cancellation terms may apply.
Group bookings - separate payment and cancellation terms may apply.
Contact the ZuBlu travel team if you have any questions about payment terms and cancellationSold out - 21Nov 20248D / 7N
Southern Solitude
21+ divesfrom $1,658Overview
8 days / 7 nights21+Advanced Open Water - Minimum 30 divesDive and travel insurance requiredTransfer details
Departure
21 Nov 2024
06:00 PM
Port Ghalib
Marsa Alam International Airport: RMF
Return
28 Nov 2024
09:00 AM
Port Ghalib
Marsa Alam International Airport: RMF
What's included
- Meals and snacks
- Water, tea and coffee
- Soft drinks
- Beer and wine with dinner
- Internet
- Fuel surcharge
- Tanks and weights
- Night dives
- Nitrox
- Towels and toiletries
- Taxes
- Park and port fees
- Transfers
What's not included
- Dive and travel insurance
To be paid in advance or onboardOptional Extras
- Single supplement - 50%
- Alcoholic drinks
- Gratuities - €75 per person
- Equipment rental - €206 per trip
To be booked in advance or paid onboardHighlights
- Circular itinerary exploring many of the southern Red Sea’s top sites
- Dive Daedalus Reef, the furthest offshore reef in the Egyptian Red Sea
- Meet the resident dolphins of Fury Shoals’ pristine reef
- Search for the oceanic whitetips and hammerheads of Elphinstone
- Night dives may be possible when outside of marine parks
- Visit the rarely dived southern sites of St Johns
- All dives made offshore
Once onboard there will be a safety briefing, crew introduction, complete and check dive paperwork, cabin allocation and boat orientation. Our boats moor in the port on arrival day, departing early the next morning. The first dive is a check dive near the port.By approaching these iconic sites in the opposite direction to most standard itineraries, we hope to offer you the best opportunity to dive with the fewest number of people around you.Southern Solitude is a dive-focused trip, heading out of Port Ghalib and immediately arriving in the Elphinstone area. This enables us to make a check dive nearby and then get straight to a site which is normally frequented on the final days of trips. With fewer boats around it should give the chance to enjoy the 300-metre-long reef’s colourful pink and red soft coral sheer walls in relative peace and quiet.We’ll then go to Daedalus, arriving before most others, to take in its deep walls and drop-offs which offer some of the most spectacular diving to be found, before heading down to the exceptionally remote, and usually quiet, Rocky and Zabargad Islands where even many Red Sea veterans cannot boast to have dived.Over the next couple of days we will move up through St John’s and Fury Shoals where our guides will find the quietest spots in this vast collection of stunning reef systems, which offers some of the most picturesque and rewarding diving in the Red Sea. Fury Shoals also boasts an amazing selection of marine life including super-friendly turtles and a resident pod of spinner dolphins.This will bring us up to day six when, while others cram into local onshore bays, we’ll do a full day and night diving program on some offshore reefs as we travel north.On the last diving day, there is the potential to do four dives as the boat stays out all night. We return to Port Ghalib at approximately 07.30 AM with boat departure to be completed by 09.00 AM. The earliest flight you should take from RMF is 10.30 AM and from HRG 13.30 PM, to allow for a stress free departure.Sample itineraries are for guidance only. Actual itineraries may differ slightly due to factors such as weather, wildlife, logistics and local regulations.Payment & cancellation terms
- More than 60 days prior to service start date, the cancellation fee charged is equal to the amount of deposit(s) already paid.
- 60 days or less prior to service start date a cancellation fee of 100% is charged.
Payment policy20% deposit - required to secure reservation.
80% balance - due 60 days prior to departure.
Bookings received less than 60 days before departure require payment in full to secure reservation.Cancellation policySpecial offers or promotions - separate payment and cancellation terms may apply.
Group bookings - separate payment and cancellation terms may apply.
Contact the ZuBlu travel team if you have any questions about payment terms and cancellationSold out - 29Nov 20248D / 7N
Famous Five - RMF - HRG
21+ divesfrom $1,556Overview
8 days / 7 nights21+Advanced Open Water - Minimum 30 divesDive and travel insurance requiredTransfer details
Departure
29 Nov 2024
06:00 PM
Port Ghalib
Marsa Alam International Airport: RMF
Return
06 Dec 2024
09:00 AM
Hurghada
Hurghada International Airport: HRG
What's included
- Meals and snacks
- Water, tea and coffee
- Soft drinks
- Beer and wine with dinner
- Internet
- Fuel surcharge
- Tanks and weights
- Night dives
- Nitrox
- Towels and toiletries
- Taxes
- Park and port fees
- Transfers
What's not included
- Dive and travel insurance
To be paid in advance or onboardOptional Extras
- Single supplement - 50%
- Alcoholic drinks
- Gratuities - €75 per person
- Equipment rental - €206 per trip
To be booked in advance or paid onboardHighlights
- Tour the best of wrecks, reefs and national parks in the Red Sea
- Make the most of up to 21 dives in 7 days
- Dive wrecks such as the Dunraven, Rosalie Moeller, Carnatic, and more
- Log dives on Shark and Yolanda reefs in Ras Mohammed National Park
- Discover the wrecks of Abu Nuhas, including Giannis D and Chrisoula K
- Explore the SS Thistlegorm wreck, during the day and at night
- Night dives may be possible when outside of marine parks
Starting from Marsa Alam, we sail north towards Gubal Island and on to Abu Nuhas and its four well-known wrecks: Giannis D, Carnatic, the ‘Lentil Wreck’ and the ‘Tile Wreck’, all offering spectacular dives and plenty of fish life. Explore the Rosalie Moller (the sister ship of the slightly more famous Thistlegorm), which lies from 30 to 50 metres deep and is in excellent condition. Although the visibility is not always good, the wreck is covered in glassfish from bow to stern and hunting them are masses of lionfish. Around the wreck are the usual pelagics such as tuna, trevallies, Emperor fish and many more.A short ride across the Straits of Gubal and you visit the most famous wreck of the Red Sea, the SS Thistlegorm! An awe-inspiring World War II British vessel with a cargo full of armaments, Bedford trucks and BSA motorbikes, which were all destined for the British troops in North Africa. She was sunk by the German Luftwaffe and now lies in 30 metres of water. Depending on divers’ experience, along with weather and current conditions, we try to offer a night dive here. Nearby is the Ras Mohamed National Park, offering a morning dive at the renowned ‘Shark and Yolanda’ reefs. Ras Mohamed National Park is the furthest Sinai destination before heading south towards the Brothers.The Brother Islands are the pinnacles of two undersea mountains rising from the depths of the abyss and are located about 60 miles offshore from El Quseir. Part of the Marine Park Islands National Park, these islands offer stunning wall diving, with the walls covered in soft corals and forests of gorgonians, creating a kaleidoscope of ever-changing colours. They attract a diverse array of marine species and large pelagics. Big tuna, barracudas, jacks and snappers cruise in the blue, accompanied by occasional hammerheads, silky and oceanic white tip sharks and mantas. Even the rare thresher shark can sometimes be found there. Sightings of the grey reef shark are almost guaranteed on the North and South Plateaux of Small Brother.For the wreck diver, the Aida II, an Egyptian supply vessel, and the Numidia, a cargo ship, lie on the walls of the Big Brother. Both are covered in a rich growth of soft and hard corals. Marine life includes a family of Napoleon wrasse and grey reef sharks.The boat will then head towards Hurghada via Safaga where you can dive at Panorama Reef or the famous wreck of Salem Express for a memorable finale.Sample itineraries are for guidance only. Actual itineraries may differ slightly due to factors such as weather, wildlife, logistics and local regulations.Payment & cancellation terms
- More than 60 days prior to service start date, the cancellation fee charged is equal to the amount of deposit(s) already paid.
- 60 days or less prior to service start date a cancellation fee of 100% is charged.
Payment policy20% deposit - required to secure reservation.
80% balance - due 60 days prior to departure.
Bookings received less than 60 days before departure require payment in full to secure reservation.Cancellation policySpecial offers or promotions - separate payment and cancellation terms may apply.
Group bookings - separate payment and cancellation terms may apply.
Contact the ZuBlu travel team if you have any questions about payment terms and cancellationLimited availability
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Cabins
Twin cabin - lower deck
Twin beds2 peopleShareableTwin cabin, convertible - main deck
Twin or double bed2 peopleShareableTwin cabin - upper deck
Twin beds2 peopleShareableJunior suite
King size bed2 peopleNon shareableExecutive suite
King size bed2 peopleNon shareable
- If you are a solo traveller, we aim to allocate shared cabins on a same-sex basis.
- Non-shareable cabins can not be shared with another single traveler outside your party. A single occupancy surcharge will be applied.